What, I mean is you can call the @include within an IF action or @IF
block. this would give you programatic control over when the @include
code is called.
but, this would place your code inline, and as you said would be clunky
you need to do it async'ly, here are 2 ways
1. you can also use the @URL in async mode by setting
"WAITFORRESULT=FALSE", this will allow you to call it and continue on.
2. another way of achieving async is using AJAX as Dale suggested
You call the code mailing.taf with an async call and have your called
taf not return anything, (@purgeresults)
On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:26 AM, WebDude wrote:
I was trying to make the mailing taf seemless with the user
experience... I have a bulk email program I use for other clients
that sends an email every .5 seconds (using a redirect and a <@CALC
<@ARG start>+1>)... works great and I was hoping to do the same with
the notification. Short of time stamping the post and seeing if
there was a response and running a cron job to send the
notifications, I was thinking of firing off the bulk email when a
post was made. The problem is that a branch or <@URL> takes the user
through the redirects and then back to the post. Very clunky which
is why I was toying with the idea of firing the external bulk email
taf during the post without taking the user there...
Mmmmm... Ben, what (how) do you mean by wrapped in an IF block?
From: Ben Johansen [mailto:b...@webspinr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for
Forum
ah, maybe an include wrapped in an IF block
On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:59 PM, WebDude wrote:
Another qustion... may be easy, I don't know...
Is there any way to trigger a taf within another taf not using <@URL>
John Muldoon
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From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:23 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for
Forum
Thanks Robert... Your idea was kind of whereI was leaning. As for
the RSS feed... the forums already have that, but very few people
actually use them. It seesm they would rather check a box then deal
with readers.
From: Robert Shubert [mailto:rshub...@tronics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for
Forum
You need a subscriptions table of sorts: which contains just the
member_id and the master_thread_id
You can add rows when people signup to get a thread emailed and
remove them when they opt-out.
Additional columns that come to mind are:
Primary key ID (not completely necessary for this type of table,
but always helpful)
Active/Inactive flag so that you can turn subscriptions on and off
(as opposed to deleting the row)
Number of emails sent: a counter for how many emails this
subscription created, which would be interesting statistically
Then when a new post comes in for thread #483, you simply look up
all the people that have subscribed to thread #483 and send them an
email.
Also (and a little off-topic) you many want to consider adding RSS
capabilities. It solves basically the same thing, but with less
traffic.
Robert
From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:58 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum
Hey all,
I was wondering if some of you bright bulbs may be able to help me.
I have a forum I built that is 100% Witango. It has close to 8,000
members and is fairly busy. I have several tables set up for the
forum which include usertable (login, email, password, etc.),
forummastertable (table of topics, threadnum, startdate, views,
etc.) and threadtable (individual posts, masterthreadnum, postdate,
user, etc).
This forum is rock solid and has been operating for over 5 years. I
have built many bells and whistles into it and decided it would be
nice to add an opt in email notification. I've seen this on other
forums (a checkbox where you can get an email notification if
someone replies to a particular thread), but I am having trouble
trying to figure out just where to start and how to do this. I
don't mean the programming specifically, but more the theory on how
to set this up. I have been looking at other forums but cannot find
any particular clue as to how this is done. Would I set up a table
with the masterthreadnum and email address and when a topic is
reponded to, query that table and send an email? This does not seem
like a very efficient way to do this.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks!
WebDude
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